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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam
The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.
Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
- An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- vdudinvladimir@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Dudin Vladimir Vasilyevich" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <vdudinvladimir@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 11:20:28 +0800
Subject: Re: very urgent
Dear,
I apologize for contacting you in this manner but the situation
at
hand demands urgent attention.
My name is Dudin Vladimir Vasilyevich, one of Ivan Pavlov¡¦s
colleagues(Ivan Pavlov is the lawyer handling Aleksei Navalny
case)
You can google it.
I have an important subject to share with you concerning jailed
Kremlin critic- Mr. Aleksei Navalny whose jail term has been
increased to 15years, leaving huge funds trapped in one of the
accounts for NGOs which we could jointly invest and use the
proceeds
to assist the displaced persons from the Russian-Ukraine
invasion.
Write back to me for more detail on how I will present you to the
bank
as one of the NGOs beneficiaries to pull some of the funds and
stop
Putin and his government from getting more funds to finance his
invasion of Ukraine.
Greetings.
Dudin Vladimir Vasilyevich.
contact: vdudinvladimir@gmail.com
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